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Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Headlines
A championship year in the pool
After the women's swim team won the national championships, the men's team came back to improve upon last year's finish by finishing sixth at the NCAAs to end an impressive swim season.
Sports, page 16
Health Center looks to the future
Plans for expansion and new technologies are just some of the changes underway at USC's Student Health Center. Staff writers David Mendenhall and Liliana Salazar elaborate.
Diversions, page 8
Do you get what you pay for?
Though going to USC can be very expensive, editorial writer Kimo Koshi looks at the facilities and services offered and explains how the university does its best to serve students.
Viewpoint, page 4
Vegetarian Club, GM certificates
The USC Vegetarian Club presents a pure food campaign today from noon to 1 p.m. by Tommy Trojan.
For more information, call (213) 764-1066.
• • •
Graduates may qualify for a $400 certificate toward the purchase or lease of any new Chevrolet, Chevy Truck, Geo or Pontiac vehicle in the GM College Grad Program.
Students are eligible for this offer if they are within six months of graduating or graduated witnin the past two years from a two- or four-year college. Graduate students are also eligible while they are enrolled or if they have graduated within the last two years.
This is GM's 13th year of offering discounts to recent graduates.
For more information, call 1-800-964-GRAD or visit their web site at www.gmgrad.com.
In the mood
Angle Chan / Dally Trojan
Angelica Wright and Gary Weston promote the upcoming Swing Night with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy on Friday.
Thursday April 1,1997 Vol.CXXXNo.48
By Siran Babayan
Stall Writer
Graduate student found dead Monday
By Stacy Matros
Assistant City Editor
Victor Wayne Browne, 41, was found dead of natural causes in his apartment Monday, after his mother called the Department of Public Safety and requested a safety check because she had not heard from him since Saturday, DPS officials said.
Browne, a graduate student studying music performance, had a history of medical prob-
lems and was under a physician's care, said DPS Deputy Chief Bob Taylor.
"He had seen his doctor on the 28th, but his mom had not talked to him in a couple of days," Taylor said.
Taylor said he thought Browne died on the night of either March 29th or the 30th.
"The lights were on, so I assume that he died sometime in the evening," Taylor said.
(S« Death, page 3)
DT probes own story, shortcoming
Sometimes a story behind a story needs to be told.
Tne accompanying article was written as a follow-up to a story that ran previously in the Daily Trojan. The Jan. 15 article reported that Alan C. Shapiro, finance chair of the USC Marshall School of Business, had been accused of plagiarism by one of the authors of a book published in 1979. The article also reported that a committee unrelated to the university, the Committee to Preserve Academic Freedom, echoed the accusation and further requested that Shapiro be asked to resign as finance chair.
Though the article was accurate in reporting the allegations, the Doily Trojan did not conduct as thorough an
investigation as we should have. We also regret that
(See Probe, page 3)
Plagiarism accusations disputed
Professor chosen as NASA alternate
An associate professor of mechanical engineering from USC may have tne chance to fly in NASA's 83rd Space Shuttle Mission, where some of his experiments will be conducted later this week.
Paul Ronney, who has been teaching at the School of Engineering since 1993, said he will fly only if one of the primary astronauts were to become severely ill or decided not to fly, which he "couldn't imagine happening."
The 16-day mission, called STS-83 Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL-1), will launch Thursday at approximately 2 p.m. Eastern time (11 a.m. Pacific time) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will explore the influence of gravity in many aspects of daily life. The
Flla photo / Dally Trojan
Paul Ronney
astronauts will spend more than two weeks conducting experiments on the behavior of various materials and liquids in space, NASA officials said.
"This particular space lab mission will study how lack of gravity affects different physical (See NASA, page 2)
Committee at center of charges against USC faculty member shrouded in secrecy
By Victoria Manley
Editor-in-Chief
An ad hoc committee, unrelated to the university, that accused the finance chair of the Marshall School of Business of plagiarism last fall remains a secretive group whose membership may be limited to a former USC faculty member.
The Committee to Preserve Academic Freedom was at the center of accusations that Alan C. Shapiro had plagiarized a multinational finance book in the early 1980s, and the panel campaigned against Shapiro with requests for his resignation as finance chair.
However, a Daily TYojan investigation uncovered no listed committee members, and has found that thc only person apparently linked to the group is Maurice B. Goudzwaard, a former business school professor in the Department of Finance and Business Economics, who retired from the university in the fall of 1995.
Goudzwaard defended the committee and said that it was "important...that all members
of the committee not be exposed."
It was the committee that brought the accusations of plagiarism to the attention of business faculty and administrators.
Shapiro vehemently denied any act of plagiarism. "There is absolutely no substance of evidence to prove plagiarism," he said.
Shapiro added that letters and memos under the letterhead of the Committee to Preserve Academic Freedom began to cross the desks of business school faculty a few months after Goudzwaard left the university.
"I don't think it's a committee," Shapiro said. "I think it's a front for one person to use against me, and it is blanketed under the Committee to Preserve Academic Freedom to lend greater credibility to his accusations."
Goudzwaard said he sticks by the committee's charges of plagiarism, and maintains that the group is legitimate.
However, numerous attempts by the Daily Trojan to identify and contact any members were
Flla photo / Dally Tro|an
Alan C. Shapiro
unsuccessful. Letters to the committee were sent to two P.O. Box addresses in Malibu listed on separate committee memos, but went unanswered. The only response received by the Daily Trojan was from Goudzwaardf, after the DT sent the same letter to the former professor at his home, also located in Malibu.
Goudzwaard identified himself as a committee member, and remains the only person willing to do so.
"1 have no qualms about your citing me as a member of the committee," he said in a written statement. "1 have told no lies and I have done what every (See Committee, page 3)

Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Headlines
A championship year in the pool
After the women's swim team won the national championships, the men's team came back to improve upon last year's finish by finishing sixth at the NCAAs to end an impressive swim season.
Sports, page 16
Health Center looks to the future
Plans for expansion and new technologies are just some of the changes underway at USC's Student Health Center. Staff writers David Mendenhall and Liliana Salazar elaborate.
Diversions, page 8
Do you get what you pay for?
Though going to USC can be very expensive, editorial writer Kimo Koshi looks at the facilities and services offered and explains how the university does its best to serve students.
Viewpoint, page 4
Vegetarian Club, GM certificates
The USC Vegetarian Club presents a pure food campaign today from noon to 1 p.m. by Tommy Trojan.
For more information, call (213) 764-1066.
• • •
Graduates may qualify for a $400 certificate toward the purchase or lease of any new Chevrolet, Chevy Truck, Geo or Pontiac vehicle in the GM College Grad Program.
Students are eligible for this offer if they are within six months of graduating or graduated witnin the past two years from a two- or four-year college. Graduate students are also eligible while they are enrolled or if they have graduated within the last two years.
This is GM's 13th year of offering discounts to recent graduates.
For more information, call 1-800-964-GRAD or visit their web site at www.gmgrad.com.
In the mood
Angle Chan / Dally Trojan
Angelica Wright and Gary Weston promote the upcoming Swing Night with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy on Friday.
Thursday April 1,1997 Vol.CXXXNo.48
By Siran Babayan
Stall Writer
Graduate student found dead Monday
By Stacy Matros
Assistant City Editor
Victor Wayne Browne, 41, was found dead of natural causes in his apartment Monday, after his mother called the Department of Public Safety and requested a safety check because she had not heard from him since Saturday, DPS officials said.
Browne, a graduate student studying music performance, had a history of medical prob-
lems and was under a physician's care, said DPS Deputy Chief Bob Taylor.
"He had seen his doctor on the 28th, but his mom had not talked to him in a couple of days," Taylor said.
Taylor said he thought Browne died on the night of either March 29th or the 30th.
"The lights were on, so I assume that he died sometime in the evening," Taylor said.
(S« Death, page 3)
DT probes own story, shortcoming
Sometimes a story behind a story needs to be told.
Tne accompanying article was written as a follow-up to a story that ran previously in the Daily Trojan. The Jan. 15 article reported that Alan C. Shapiro, finance chair of the USC Marshall School of Business, had been accused of plagiarism by one of the authors of a book published in 1979. The article also reported that a committee unrelated to the university, the Committee to Preserve Academic Freedom, echoed the accusation and further requested that Shapiro be asked to resign as finance chair.
Though the article was accurate in reporting the allegations, the Doily Trojan did not conduct as thorough an
investigation as we should have. We also regret that
(See Probe, page 3)
Plagiarism accusations disputed
Professor chosen as NASA alternate
An associate professor of mechanical engineering from USC may have tne chance to fly in NASA's 83rd Space Shuttle Mission, where some of his experiments will be conducted later this week.
Paul Ronney, who has been teaching at the School of Engineering since 1993, said he will fly only if one of the primary astronauts were to become severely ill or decided not to fly, which he "couldn't imagine happening."
The 16-day mission, called STS-83 Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL-1), will launch Thursday at approximately 2 p.m. Eastern time (11 a.m. Pacific time) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will explore the influence of gravity in many aspects of daily life. The
Flla photo / Dally Trojan
Paul Ronney
astronauts will spend more than two weeks conducting experiments on the behavior of various materials and liquids in space, NASA officials said.
"This particular space lab mission will study how lack of gravity affects different physical (See NASA, page 2)
Committee at center of charges against USC faculty member shrouded in secrecy
By Victoria Manley
Editor-in-Chief
An ad hoc committee, unrelated to the university, that accused the finance chair of the Marshall School of Business of plagiarism last fall remains a secretive group whose membership may be limited to a former USC faculty member.
The Committee to Preserve Academic Freedom was at the center of accusations that Alan C. Shapiro had plagiarized a multinational finance book in the early 1980s, and the panel campaigned against Shapiro with requests for his resignation as finance chair.
However, a Daily TYojan investigation uncovered no listed committee members, and has found that thc only person apparently linked to the group is Maurice B. Goudzwaard, a former business school professor in the Department of Finance and Business Economics, who retired from the university in the fall of 1995.
Goudzwaard defended the committee and said that it was "important...that all members
of the committee not be exposed."
It was the committee that brought the accusations of plagiarism to the attention of business faculty and administrators.
Shapiro vehemently denied any act of plagiarism. "There is absolutely no substance of evidence to prove plagiarism," he said.
Shapiro added that letters and memos under the letterhead of the Committee to Preserve Academic Freedom began to cross the desks of business school faculty a few months after Goudzwaard left the university.
"I don't think it's a committee," Shapiro said. "I think it's a front for one person to use against me, and it is blanketed under the Committee to Preserve Academic Freedom to lend greater credibility to his accusations."
Goudzwaard said he sticks by the committee's charges of plagiarism, and maintains that the group is legitimate.
However, numerous attempts by the Daily Trojan to identify and contact any members were
Flla photo / Dally Tro|an
Alan C. Shapiro
unsuccessful. Letters to the committee were sent to two P.O. Box addresses in Malibu listed on separate committee memos, but went unanswered. The only response received by the Daily Trojan was from Goudzwaardf, after the DT sent the same letter to the former professor at his home, also located in Malibu.
Goudzwaard identified himself as a committee member, and remains the only person willing to do so.
"1 have no qualms about your citing me as a member of the committee," he said in a written statement. "1 have told no lies and I have done what every (See Committee, page 3)